Advanced Classic Warrior DPS Guide by Krug

Today's Classic WoW guide spotlight goes to our Advanced DPS Warrior Class Guide, written by Krug. DPS Warriors are very popular in Classic WoW, as they scale well with gear and are strong in both PvE and PvP.\r\r\rThe Advanced DPS Warrior Class Guide is the second in our series of in-depth Class Guides for Classic WoW, following the same level of detail as our Retail Class Guides. The advanced guide details many different aspects of the class, including talents, rotation, best in slot gear, consumables, and much more.\r\r\rAdvanced DPS Воин Guides\r\r\rOverview\rTalents & Builds\rBiS Gear\rRotation & Abilities\rStats\rEnchants\rConsumables\r\r\r\r\r\rAbout the Author\r\rKrug is a veteran member of both the Classic and Retail World of Warcraft communities. If you enjoy his written guides, be sure to follow him on his other pages for more Classic WoW content: Youtube, Mixer, and Twitter.\r\r\r\rSeveral days ago we shared the Advanced Rogue Class Guide by Rokman, and we will continue to publish comprehensive guides for all classes in Classic WoW, with some classes having multiple ones, like Жрец and Воин, as a lot can change for them depending on their preferred role. Also, more information will be added to those guides as we get closer to Classic release, including specialized PvP, addon, and WeakAuras pages for each class, so make sure to check them out often for updates.\r\rCurrently, we are also looking for writers for our Паладин advanced guides (healer, as well as niche playstyles), which should be analogous to the Воин guide. If you're 18 or older, interested in the position, have experience with Vanilla WoW, and are familiar with guide\/technical writing, we'd love to hear from you. Send us an e-mail talking about your experience, and some writing examples to . This is paid work.\r\r\rDid you enjoy this news article? Receive instant notifications when the latest news is published through the Wowhead Discord Webhook and join the community with Wowhead's Discord Server, Twitter, and Facebook.

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Комментарий от hotaru251

Комментарий от marth354

I can't wait to see the druid guides. Looking forward to focusing on tanking while filling in where needed. 1.12 was a pretty god time for bears.

Комментарий от hotaru251

on 2019-06-14T19:29:12-05:00

I can't wait to see the druid guides. Looking forward to focusing on tanking while filling in where needed. 1.12 was a pretty god time for bears.\r\r"you may think your a tank, the game may say you are a tank, but know this..you are a healer."

Комментарий от marth354

on 2019-06-14T22:42:21-05:00

I can't wait to see the druid guides. Looking forward to focusing on tanking while filling in where needed. 1.12 was a pretty god time for bears.\r\r"you may think your a tank, the game may say you are a tank, but know this..you are a healer."\r\rActually druids can tank perfectly fine in the patch Classic is running on. In fact there are fights where a druid is preferable over a warrior tank due to their ability to build threat more quickly. This holds especially true i.n the beginning of raid tiers. We fall down a bit once warriors start getting gear in the earlier raids due to lack of items that give us the stats we need. Once we get into AQ that changes because druids start getting really good feral gear at that point. Also druids consistently make great secondary tanks throughout. They can hold second aggro much better than warriors because even not being hit a bear shouldn't be rage starved at all, which is more of a problem with warriors on fights that require two tanks. Then there is also the crit aura they give. If you have a few of your melee in the group they will love the dps bump. Sure there are fights that a warrior is definitely better at, but Druids also have several fights they excel at tanking as well if played right. I don't plan to be doing any raiding with a hardcore guild either, so min maxing shouldn't be a huge concern anyway. I mostly plan to do 5-mans, the earlier raids, and the 20 mans once they come in. A lot of the stigma towards Druid tanks in Vanilla comes from before they received their buffs, in patch 1.9 I believe. Before that patch they were absolute trash. After it however they began to fall much more in line with warriors. Like I said they are still a bit weaker than warriors once they start getting good upgrades, but are by no means a bad choice to bring a raid. That just means you either go from main tanking to off tanking or continue to off tank as needed and can still continue to fill in as heals or as a decurse bot if the fight requires such. Compared to a fury off tank, a feral brings a lot more versatility and I understand that as a primarily bear druid it will be expected of and necessary for me to fill other roles as needed. Plenty of druids have tanked through all of the raids. True most of these would be from private serves, but a lot of the reason for that comes from how ingrained the stigma against druids as anything but a healer already was by the time they became viable. So while druids can be healers and I will be healing on occasion; I can assure you that I will be tanking as well.

Комментарий от perculia

on 2019-06-15T01:42:51-05:00

I can't wait to see the druid guides. Looking forward to focusing on tanking while filling in where needed. 1.12 was a pretty god time for bears.\r\r"you may think your a tank, the game may say you are a tank, but know this..you are a healer."\r\rWe have a few different druid guides coming out :)

Комментарий от Spacetauren

on 2019-06-15T04:30:01-05:00

Twice in those guides have I seen a misconstructed argument on why the "Weapon Skill" stat on items is desirable. Krug argues that the increased hit and crit chance obtained by increasing weapon skill are valuable, but a +10 in weapon skill only incurs a +0.4% chance to hit and +0.4% chance to crit.\r\rHowever, weapon skill reduces the effect of glancing blows (which have a 40% chance of happening on enemies with greater defense skill than your weapon skill regardless) on raid bosses. At the base 300 WS, glancing blows on raid bosses deal only 70% of normal white damage, but at 310 WS, glancing blows only deal a measly 5% reduced damage !\r\rI think the "Stats" section of these guides should be more precise and tell actually why Weapon skill is a desirable stat, instead of using a cookie cutter argument that misrepresents the reality of the mechanics.

Комментарий от Rokman

on 2019-06-15T11:53:30-05:00

Twice in those guides have I seen a misconstructed argument on why the "Weapon Skill" stat on items is desirable. Krug argues that the increased hit and crit chance obtained by increasing weapon skill are valuable, but a +10 in weapon skill only incurs a +0.4% chance to hit and +0.4% chance to crit.\r\rHowever, weapon skill reduces the effect of glancing blows (which have a 40% chance of happening on enemies with greater defense skill than your weapon skill regardless) on raid bosses. At the base 300 WS, glancing blows on raid bosses deal only 70% of normal white damage, but at 310 WS, glancing blows only deal a measly 5% reduced damage !\r\rI think the "Stats" section of these guides should be more precise and tell actually why Weapon skill is a desirable stat, instead of using a cookie cutter argument that misrepresents the reality of the mechanics.\r\rIn the Rogue Guide, I specifically avoided talking about Glancing Blow math\/formulas because there isn't any Blue post from Vanilla era. Only sources (that I could find) had conflicting information. Some say 310 reduces glancing to 0%, some say 5%. Private Server math and formulas are even more off, but were much easier to find.\r\rI'm waiting until Classic to test this and see other's results before editing my Guide. But yes, you are correct, Weapon Skill has a big impact on Glancing Blow damage reduction. \r\r*I will edit in a portion of this into my Rogue Guide, with a disclaimer that the actual math isn't fully understood for Classic.

Комментарий от marth354

on 2019-06-15T13:39:28-05:00

\rWe have a few different druid guides coming out :)\r\rGlad to hear it! Looking forward to checking them out and possibly picking up some tips and tricks I don't know yet. ^^

Комментарий от Wixman1234

on 2019-06-17T16:38:25-05:00

I can't wait to see the druid guides. Looking forward to focusing on tanking while filling in where needed. 1.12 was a pretty god time for bears.\r\r"you may think your a tank, the game may say you are a tank, but know this..you are a healer."\r\rActually druids can tank perfectly fine in the patch Classic is running on. In fact there are fights where a druid is preferable over a warrior tank due to their ability to build threat more quickly. \r\rKeep telling yourself that while you're healing. The number of fights where a druid tank is preferable to a warrior can be counted on one hand if you consider every fight from the start to the finish.\r\rAnd OP, it's YOU'RE. :D

Комментарий от marth354

on 2019-06-17T18:54:21-05:00

I can't wait to see the druid guides. Looking forward to focusing on tanking while filling in where needed. 1.12 was a pretty god time for bears.\r\r"you may think your a tank, the game may say you are a tank, but know this..you are a healer."\r\rActually druids can tank perfectly fine in the patch Classic is running on. In fact there are fights where a druid is preferable over a warrior tank due to their ability to build threat more quickly. \r\rKeep telling yourself that while you're healing. The number of fights where a druid tank is preferable to a warrior can be counted on one hand if you consider every fight from the start to the finish.\r\rAnd OP, it's YOU'RE. :D\rLook I would rather not argue here, I think my previous statement speaks for itself. If you want to learn more about bear tanking go watch Tipsout's interview with Skarm on druid tanking. It's a pretty good look into the actual ins and outs of the spec and what they bring to the table. The only point I will add since I meant to say it before and forgot. One less warrior tank means one less competition for plate gear and weapons a warrior wants, and thus faster gearing. So there are reasons for warriors to want a druid around outside of pure mechanics too.